On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:00:36 GMT, "Bill McKee"
wrote:

No the PFMC is a Federal appointed board.

Thanks.

We had an incident up here last year with Ocean Conservancy in which
they set up an official sounding "board" at URI ostensibly to collect
"public comments" on MPAs and it turned out that the board was a
fishing (no pun intended) expedition to find out what the objections
were and custom tailor their extreme agenda with regard to MPAs.

As a representative of a state club, myself and several others caught
on real fast and left the meeting along with a bunch of commercial
types who showed up. We all met outside the building and came to the
same conclusion - re above.

It would appear that this is legit although if the Environmental
Defense Fund is involved, you can be sure it's not going to do the
recreational fishery any good.

Later,

Tom